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Monday, March 30, 2015

We all have an aunt or a grandmother that has a shoebox full of obituaries, funeral cards, or other old documents that sit on a dresser or closet shelf. Or, perhaps we are that person with the shoebox. These beginning genealogy sessions will show how to take what you know and what you have access to, and teach the steps involved in getting it organized and compiled into a useful genealogy that can benefit future generations.

Session 1 - Getting Started on the Right Foot. All of us know at least a bit of information about our family. It may be something we have heard, or something we have and don't know how it can help us. We will start out learning about information from an obituary, and entering the facts into the Legacy Family Tree software.

Join us for the live webinar Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 2pm Eastern U.S. Register today to reserve your virtual seat. Registration is free but space is limited to the first 1,000 people to join that day. Before joining, please visit www.java.com to ensure you have the latest version of Java which our webinar software requires. When you join, if you receive a message that the webinar is full, you know we've reached the 1,000 limit, so we invite you to view the recording which should be published to the webinar archives within an hour or two of the event's conclusion.

No worries. Its recording will be available for a limited time. Webinar Subscribers have unlimited access to all webinar recordings for the duration of their membership.

About the presenter

Peggy Clemens Lauritzen, AG, was involved in genealogy before she was even born. The daughter of avid genealogists, she was spending time in courthouses and cemeteries while other children were playing on swings and going to the beach. The love of her family’s history has never left her. With her experience as a former Family History Director, she is a frequent speaker at genealogical societies, workshops, seminars, and webinars where she loves bringing genealogy to life. Some of those would include The Ohio Genealogical Society, The Ohio State University, Brigham Young University, and many other state and local genealogy societies. She has recently completed several Legacy QuickGuides on Appalachia, which are also available on www.legacyfamilytree.com and www.amazon.com.

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Join your friend in genealogy DearMYRTLE for Mondays with Myrt. It's a *live* 90-minute Hangout on Air with a panel of ten discussing what's trending in the world of #Genealogy. Practical, down-to-earth advice for family historians. Cousin Russ will be on hand to weave your comments into the conversation. We also automatically record each session for those who aren't available during the live broadcast. Consider joining the panel. We open the green room about 15 minutes before we hit the record button.WHEREhttp://bit.ly/MyrtsNext

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

The recording of today's webinar, "Where Does It Say That? Learning to Love Indirect Evidence" by Chris Staats is now available in the Webinar Library for free for a limited time. Check out these comments:

Best seminar I have seen. I gained much from watching a professional genealogist work through a series of non-trivialproblems.

This pulled together so much of the info gleaned from various seminars onsources and analysis. It really got my mind working. I thought it would be sort of an overview to strengthen my research skills, but it went way beyond that. I will be going back to my research with an enriched sense of how to approach it.

This is hands down the best presentation I have heard from Legacy.

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If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 32 minute recording of "Where Does It Say That? Learning to Love Indirect Evidence" is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time. Or watch it at your convenience with an annual or monthly webinar membership.

DATE: 25 March 2015
By popular demand, we're exploring the new HeritageQuest Online website, accessible via public libraries, including some that provide home access through public library website portals. This is especially important since Ancestry.com now manages the HeritageQuest Online servers.

You will be surprised how in a very short time, Ancestry.com has added helpful context sensitive advertizing in the form of info pages that lack the HQ/Ancestry co-branding, in favor of Ancestry.com branding.

I'm not faulting Ancestry.com, except for the fact that the sometimes much better HQ US federal census images are now replaced by Ancestry census images. Also, sadly, the HQ census search engine is gone. I am one who believes the HQ census indexes had a higher accuracy rate than Ancestry's. (sigh)

Come on over to see which of DearMYRTLE's very distant cousins will visit to explore one topic in depth.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

There are some topics in genealogy that appeal only to a certain group - like ethnic or geographic research. Here's a topic that all Legacy Family Tree webinar subscribers can enjoy! "Caring for Keepsakes: The Top 10 Family Heirlooms" by Denise May Levenick has just been added to the Legacy webinar library.

This webinar is full of surprises! Denise surveyed genealogists to find out what their top family heirlooms were. The list will surprise and delight you. In this webinar, Denise will take you through the list of heirlooms and open your eyes to all the considerations needed to care for your keepsakes. She covers everything from storage to preservation and sharing. She also gives a list of what not to do to your items.

Interspersed with the education are great personal stories that will have you shaking your head in agreement or laughing from amusement. The presentation is visual eye candy as Denise takes us on a tour of her personal collection. Tying the webinar together is really sound advice.

"Caring for Keepsakes: The Top 10 Family Heirlooms" is an all-around hit. Let Denise take you on a wonderful hour long journey of nostalgia and learn how to care for your heirlooms at the same time.

How to view:

If you are an annual or monthly webinar subscriber, this webinar's recording is now available in the Webinar Library. Just head over to the library, login, and enjoy!

If you are not yet a webinar subscriber...when you join as an annual or monthly subscriber you, too, will have access to these bonus members-only webinars. This is the sixth we've added since January. Take a look at all of these benefits:

In every family, someone ends up with “the stuff.” Denise May Levenick is a writer, researcher, and speaker with a passion for preserving and sharing family treasures of all kinds. She is the creator of the award-winning family history blog, The Family Curator and author of two books on preserving family treasures, How to Archive Family Photos (Family Tree Books, 2015), and How to Archive Family Keepsakes: Learn How to Preserve Family Photos, Memorabilia and Genealogy Records, (Family Tree Books, 2012).

Denise inherited her first family archive from her grandmother – a trunk filled with photos, letters, documents, and lots of “miscellaneous stuff” and is now the caretaker of several family collections. She has adapted professional archival techniques to the family archive situation and shares her experiences at her website, and in her books and articles.

Denise is a frequent contributor to family history magazines and online publications, and presenter for webinars and workshops. She is a former high school English and Journalism teacher, and a holds a Master’s Degree in English Literature.

How to Archive Family Keepsakes helps family historians use professional archival techniques with their own family treasures. Numerous charts and checklists and Denise’s practical guidance offer step-by-step advice for organizing, preserving, and digitizing heirlooms, and genealogy research.

Denise is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, the Southern California Genealogical Society, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and The Phi Beta Kappa Society. She heads the grant committee for the Suzanne Winsor Freeman Memorial Student Genealogy Grant founded in 2010 to assist young genealogists seeking to advance their genealogical education. She lives in Pasadena, California.

Monday, March 23, 2015

Direct evidence, the sort of evidence that completely answers a research question by itself, is often scarce. Without any documents telling us exactly what we want to know, how do we identify relationships that might not be stated explicitly, resolve conflicts between records, and arrive at sound genealogical conclusions? By collecting, analyzing, and correlating indirect evidence of course! The Henry McGinnis family of 19th century rural Pennsylvania provides a good example of using mostly indirect evidence to reconstruct a family which left precious little for descendants to work with.

Join us for the live webinar Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 2pm Eastern U.S. Register today to reserve your virtual seat. Registration is free but space is limited to the first 1,000 people to join that day. Before joining, please visit www.java.com to ensure you have the latest version of Java which our webinar software requires. When you join, if you receive a message that the webinar is full, you know we've reached the 1,000 limit, so we invite you to view the recording which should be published to the webinar archives within an hour or two of the event's conclusion.

No worries. Its recording will be available for a limited time. Webinar Subscribers have unlimited access to all webinar recordings for the duration of their membership.

About the presenter

Chris Staats is a Cleveland, Ohio-based professional genealogical researcher, presenter, and writer. He has written articles for Family Tree Magazine, Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly, and other publications. Chris has given presentations covering methodology, resources, technology, and other topics at genealogical societies and libraries across Ohio. He is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, chapter representative for the Great Lakes APG chapter, and Seminar Chairperson for the Western Reserve Historical Society’s Genealogical Committee.

With our Google Calendar button, you will never forget our upcoming webinars. Simply click the button to add it to your calendar. You can then optionally embed the webinar events (and even turn them on and off) into your own personal calendar. If you have already added the calendar, you do not have to do it again - the new webinar events will automatically appear.

Join your friend in genealogy DearMYRTLE for Mondays with Myrt. It's a *live* 90-minute Hangout on Air with a panel of ten discussing what's trending in the world of #Genealogy. Practical, down-to-earth advice for family historians. Cousin Russ will be on hand to weave your comments into the conversation. We also automatically record each session for those who aren't available during the live broadcast. Consider joining the panel. We open the green room about 15 minutes before we hit the record button.WHEREhttp://bit.ly/MyrtsNext

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

The recording of today's webinar, "Irish Genealogical Records in the 17th-19th Centuries" by Judy Wight is now available in the Webinar Library for free for a limited time. In her 8th webinar in our Irish Genealogy series, Judy taught about many new records for the first time. If your Irish brick wall hasn't fallen yet, this may be the webinar that gets you closer! Lots of great comments:

This webinar has given me the courage to start looking for my ancestors in Ireland.

Chock full of source info that was new. Plus, as an old time user of Legacy enjoyed Geoff's after party - especially how to use the name index.

Another superb high-quality webinar from Legacy, beautifully hosted by Geoff, and presented so knowledgeably by Judith Wight. Thank you once more. I'm thrilled to be a member of Legacy Webinars!

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If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 47 minute recording of "Irish Genealogical Records in the 17th-19th Centuries" PLUS the after-webinar party is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time. Or watch it at your convenience with an annual or monthly webinar membership.

The Irish diaspora (legally defined as people of Irish nationality who habitually reside outside of the island of Ireland) is far reaching. It has been estimated that over 100,000,000 people worldwide claim that they have ancestors from Ireland. The Irish Potato Famine of the mid to late 1840s is just one of many watershed events that precipitated emigration.

Looking to find those elusive Irish ancestors? The Irish Genealogy Legacy QuickGuide contains useful information including a timeline of Irish history events, tips on Irish genealogy research strategy, outline of major immigrant groups, and more. Also included are links to websites and resources covering vital records, church records, census records, as well as general Irish genealogy resources. This handy 5-page PDF guide can be used on your computer or mobile device for anytime access.

Last week's webinar, Finding Your Femme Fatales: Exploring the Dark Side of Female Ancestors, presented by Lisa A. Alzo, M.F.A., is now available to ISGS members in the Members Section of the ISGS website (http://ilgensoc.org/members.php).

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Monday, March 16, 2015

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day With Us!Free Webinar from APG

Presenter: Paula Stuart-Warren, CG

Date:Tuesday, March 17, 2015Time: 9:00 p.m. EASTERN Daylight Time

Cost: Free!

Webinar Description: Many people who have worked on their own family history research consider this profession. However, we need the necessary areas of skill, experience, and understanding before presenting ourselves as a professional in this field. I like to offer realistic encouragement to those considering working part-time or full-time in this occupation. During this webinar we will cover some readiness questions, learn about ways to improve our skills and knowledge, and learn to honestly judge our readiness. How do you think you will do in the readiness questions? While directed mainly at those interested in doing research for clients, most of these principles also apply to those who are writers, editors, lecturers, heir searchers, or genealogical reference librarians.

About the Presenter:Paula Stuart-Warren is an internationally recognized genealogical educator, researcher and consultant focusing on unusual resources, manuscripts, methodology, and analyzing records. She has researched onsite at the U. S. National Archives, Family History Library, Minnesota Historical Society, Wisconsin Historical Society, New England Historic Genealogical Society and other state and local repositories from coast to coast. She is a Course Coordinator for the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy and the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, and has lectured at National Genealogical Society and Federation of Genealogical Societies conferences since the early 1990s, and in many states and Canada. Paula is a former officer of the Association of Professional Genealogists, former board member of the Minnesota Genealogical Society, and past President of the Northland Chapter of the APG. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Federation of Genealogical Societies.REGISTER NOW:https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/477982617

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Got Irish Ancestors? I do! 17 ancestors on my direct line came from Ireland. I'm looking forward to this Wednesday's webinar presented by our Irish genealogy expert, Judith Eccles Wight. In "Irish Genealogical Records in the 17th-19th Centuries" Judy will teach about 17th-19th century genealogy records using different case studies in this day-after-St. Patrick's Day webinar.

Join us for the live webinar Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 9pm Eastern U.S. Register today to reserve your virtual seat. Registration is free but space is limited to the first 1,000 people to join that day. Before joining, please visit www.java.com to ensure you have the latest version of Java which our webinar software requires. When you join, if you receive a message that the webinar is full, you know we've reached the 1,000 limit, so we invite you to view the recording which should be published to the webinar archives within an hour or two of the event's conclusion.

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About the presenter

Owner of Wight House Research, Judy has been an Accredited Genealogist specializing in Ireland (30+ years) and Scotland (10+ years). She writes extensively for genealogical periodicals and is a popular teacher and lecturer at genealogical events. She worked 10 years as a reference consultant at the Family History Library and has vast research experience in the British Isles, U.S., Canada, and Australia.

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The recording of last Wednesday's webinar, "Crafting Ancestor Profiles from Start to Finish" by Lisa Alzo is now available in the Webinar Library for free for a limited time. Lots of great comments:

Excellent, knowledgeable speaker with a fine command of her subject. Great handout.

This sure encouraged me to write about some of my favorite ancestors. They meant so much to me, I would like to share.

Useful information presented so I can start applying it right away.

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If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 33 minute recording of "Crafting Ancestor Profiles" is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time. Or watch it at your convenience with an annual or monthly webinar membership.

If you’ve always wanted to write a family history, but don’t know where or how to begin,The Writing Your Family History Legacy QuickGuide™ contains useful information including the tips, tools, and tricks you’ll need to get beyond the names, dates and places to bring your family tree to life. Also included are writing exercises, links to handy apps, and self-publishing resources, to help you craft and publish a “can’t put down” narrative. This handy 4-page PDF guide can be used on your computer or mobile device for anytime access.

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